CRWROPPS Post: WICW Fiction & Poetry Fellowships: One Week Left to Apply

One-Week Notice: Apply to the WICW Poetry & Fiction Fellowships ($39K each) Writers! You have just one week left to apply for a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship. The deadline is March 1. Successful applicants will receive a minimum $39,000 stipend and will teach two creative writing courses (one each semester) at UW-Madison, beginning late August 2021. Prospective fellows may apply through Submittable at wicw.submittable.com/submit. Any writer with an MFA, who has published fewer than two books, can apply. Please read more eligibility details, below. We look forward to reading your work! About the Fellowships For 35 years, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison has provided time, space, and an intellectual community for writers working on a first or second book of poetry or fiction. Altogether, our fellows have published more than a hundred and fifty full-length collections and novels, many of them winning major national honors. This year, in addition to our annual Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship, the Institute will offer four additional year-long opportunities through an open competition: two in fiction (the James C. McCreight Fellowship and the Carol Houck Smith Fellowship), and two in poetry (the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellowship and the Ronald Wallace Fellowship). Each of these fellowships carries with it a minimum $39,000 stipend (paid in equal installments from October 1 through June 1), generous health benefits, and a one-course-per-semester teaching assignment in introductory, intermediate, or advanced undergraduate creative writing. Fiction and poetry fellows are asked to give one public reading during the fellowship year. Additionally, all fellows participate in determining the recipients of the annual Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, as well as the Program in Creative Writing's undergraduate writing contests. Along with faculty and an external committee including former fellows and writers of note, fellows also serve on the committees selecting the following year's WICW poetry and fiction fellows. Eligibility Details To be eligible, applicants must have completed or be scheduled to complete an MFA or Ph.D. in Creative Writing by August 15, 2021, and cannot be enrolled in any degree-granting program of study during the fellowship year itself. If the COVID-19 pandemic subsides sufficiently for UW-Madison to resume in-person courses as its primary mode of instruction, successful applicants will also be expected to maintain residence in Madison for the fellowship year. Eligible applicants may have published no more than one full-length book of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction, as of the March 1 deadline. Individuals who have never published a full-length collection or book are also eligible—in fact, most of our fellows have been unpublished, and previous publications are not a factor in our admissions process. For eligibility questions not addressed in this e-mail, applicants may consult our FAQ page. The Application Applicants should prepare the following materials before applying:   (1) A writing sample consisting of either 10 pages of poetry (single-spaced and uploaded as a pdf) or up to 30 pages of fiction (double-spaced and uploaded as a pdf). Fiction applications must consist of either one short story or a novel excerpt. Your name must not appear anywhere on your manuscript, and while previously published work may be submitted, your manuscript must in no way indicate that your work has been published.   (2) A resume or curriculum vitae in pdf format, concluding with the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of two professional references for us to contact in the event that you are designated a winner or an alternate.   (3) A $50.00 reading fee, paid online by credit card. Submit today! The deadline is March 1. ANTHONY DOERR, 1999-2000 Fiction Fellow and author of five novels, memoirs, and collections including Pulitzer Prizewinner and New York Times #1 bestseller All the Light We Cannot See. DANIELLE EVANS, 2006-2007 Fiction Fellow and author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, which won the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Award and many other honors. JAMEL BRINKLEY, 2016-2017 Fiction Fellow and author of the short story collection A Lucky Man, which was a 2018 National Book Award finalist. SRIKANTH REDDY, 2002-2003 Poetry Fellow and author of the poetry collections Underworld Lit, Voyager, and Facts for Visitors. REBECCA HAZELTON, 2010-2011 Poetry Fellow and author of the poetry collections Gloss (2019), Vow (2013), and Fair Copy (2012). TIANA CLARK, 2017-2018 Poetry Fellow and author of I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood. EMMA STRAUB, 2008-2009 Fiction Fellow and author of the novels All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, The Vacationers and Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, as well as the story collection Other People We Married. KARYNA MCGLYNN, 2015-2016 Poetry Fellow and author of Hothouse and I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl. ERIKA MEITNER, 2001-2002 Poetry Fellow and author of the poetry collections Holy Moly Carry Me, Copia, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Ideal Cities, and Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore.